Sentence examples for problematic thesis from inspiring English sources

The proposal requires descriptivism, the thesis that ordinary proper names have descriptive equivalences, which many find to be a problematic thesis.

In that case, however, Parsons is committed to the problematic thesis of the identity of indiscernibles and so the impossibility of two primitively distinct but qualitatively identical objects.

In developmental biology the MCO underlies a logically incoherent model of ontogeny, the genetic program, which serves to legitimate three problematic theses about development: genetic animism, neo-preformationism, and developmental computability.

It is only democratic debate and the vigorous exchange of ideas that have had an impact on the development of the most problematic Islamist theses -- from understanding of the Sharia to respect for freedom and defense of equality.

This is the most problematic part of his thesis.

More problematic for Brill's thesis, charter schools, which are typically freed from union rules, haven't succeeded in the ways their champions once hoped.

At the time of [PPS] Chisholm already recognized that this formulation of Brentano's Thesis was problematic.

However, our previous experience in offering breast cancer survivors the opportunity to participate in face-to-face sexual therapy proved problematic [de Blok G. Thesis on the outpatient clinic for sexuality and breast cancer of The Netherlands Cancer Institute. Unpublished manuscript].

The doctrine is sometimes labelled "monopsychism", but this is a problematic term, since Averroes' unicity thesis concerns the intellect, not the soul.

Central to the psycho-behavioural thesis is a problematic assumption: that if people believe they have a moral duty to respect nature or believe that natural things are intrinsically valuable, then they really will act in more environmental-friendly ways.

Another reaction to the problematic is Wittgensteinian fideism, the thesis that there are various different "language games", and that while it is appropriate to ask questions about justification within a language game it is a mistake to ask about the justification of "playing" the game in question.